While subsequent Graviteam tanksims (Steel Fury Kharkov 1942 and Steel Armor Blaze of War) made successive and significant improvements to visuals and gameplay, this is still a rather good little package, especially at the low asking price. The missions in the nicely story-driven and character-based campaign are small-scale, including several where you're essentially on your own and up against weapons which will make short work of whatever tank you have (starting with the T-34-85). The implementation of the driver, gunner and commander roles is quite detailed, engaging and convincing and the sim delivers an excellent feeling of rumbling around in and operating a tank, especially the star, the ubiquitous T-72. Apply the Gastello mod to improve significantly the 3d models, scenery and sights (this disables the T34-85 as 'playable', and will return the in-game menus to Russian, but the top-level one is still in English and a fix is being looked into for the others). Read the manual and use the file cfg.bat to fine-tune settings that can't be touched in-game, including (in my case) setting the display to 1920x1080.

While subsequent Graviteam tanksims (Steel Fury Kharkov 1942 and Steel Armor Blaze of War) made successive and significant improvements to visuals and gameplay, this is still a rather good little package, especially at the low asking price. The missions in the nicely story-driven and character-based campaign are small-scale, including several where you're essentially on your own and up against weapons which will make short work of whatever tank you have (starting with the T-34-85). The implementation of the driver, gunner and commander roles is quite detailed, engaging and convincing and the sim delivers an excellent feeling of rumbling around in and operating a tank, especially the star, the ubiquitous T-72. Apply the Gastello mod to improve significantly the 3d models, scenery and sights (this disables the T34-85 as 'playable', and will return the in-game menus to Russian, but the top-level one is still in English and a fix is being looked into for the others). Read the manual and use the file cfg.bat to fine-tune settings that can't be touched in-game, including (in my case) setting the display to 1920x1080.